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Palmento Costanzo
Etna Rosso Contrada Santo Spirito
Sicily · Italy·Vintage 2017
Critics
Tasting note
A wine of strong ruby colour and a rich and elegant bouquet of red berries, sour cherry and flinty notes, this wine is strong and pronounced on the palate, and a long and persistent mineral finish.
The wine
- Grape
- Nerello Mascalese 90%, Nerello Cappuccio 10%
- Style
- Red
- Alcohol
- 14%
- Size
- 750ml
- Winemaker
- Nicola Centonze
The producer
Palmento Costanzo
Passopisciaro · Etna, SicilyFounded 201018 ha of vineyardpalmentocostanzo.com
Palmento Costanzo sits in Contrada Santo Spirito on the northern slope of Etna, around a conservatively restored 19th-century palmento (traditional lava-stone wine press) with a new bio-architectural cellar built beside it. Its eighteen hectares are terraced across several contrade, each on a different lava flow, and every parcel is vinified separately in steel, tonneaux or large casks so each soil speaks with its own voice.